Women wear a lot of hats. They’re mothers, daughters, caregivers, executives, lovers, fighters, dreamers, and doers. If you’re looking for the best list of inspirational quotes from highly successful women, you’ve come to the right place. Check out these 30 quotes from a variety of ladies around the world that will inspire you to get up off your seat and live.
- “I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.” — Maya Angelou
- “It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.” — Madeleine Albright
- “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.” — Louisa May Alcott
- “I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.” — Michelle Obama
- “As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.” —Virginia Woolf
- “I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint – and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.” — Oprah Winfrey
- “My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no one’s doing but my own. I am the force. I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice. My responsibility. Win or lose; only I hold the key to my destiny.” — Elaine Maxwell
- “A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That’s why they don’t get what they want.” — Madonna
- “The most effective way to do it, is to do it.” — Amelia Earhart.
- “Always concentrate on how far you have come, rather than how far you have left to go. The difference in how easy it seems will amaze you.” — Heidi Johnson
- “I am willing to put myself through anything, temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level. I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process.” — Diana Nyad
- “I think beauty comes from within. If you’re happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.” — Faith Hill
- “Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.” — Margaret Thatcher
- “Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.” — J. K. Rowling
- “Some positive creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer.” — Marilyn Monroe
- “A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.” — Diane Mariechild
- “The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” — Ayn Rand
- “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe
- “You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.” — Indira Gandhi
- “You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.” — Barbara De Angelis
- “Every woman has the right to be beautiful.” — Elizabeth Arden
- “Nothing is impossible; the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!” — Audrey Hepburn
- “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” — Helen Keller
- “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West
- The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” — Coco Chanel
- Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.” — Charlotte Whitton
- “Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.” — Mother Teresa
- I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.” — Anaïs Nin
- Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.” — Marie Curie
